- One of my previous posts described how I planted a pasture of 4 winter grasses (with the assistance of trailer loads of alpaca poo) out the front of the house in May. Well the summer seeds had to be spread by the end of August, so today was the day. The established pasture needed this seed as well as the next bare area where no seed had been spread before. This bare ground is rock hard (with rocks in it), so there is no way the soil could be loosened for the seed. My method was simple - spread the seed and some superphosphate and then lightly cover in either alpaca poo or hay I had raked up from the animal shed. Rain is forecast for the next week, so fingers crossed. This seed needs warm days to germinate and if I am lucky I might see some green in 4 weeks. (Prior to my seeding, I spend a day pulling out lots of Cape Weed which is a prolific South African plant and is a menace to my new pasture.)
- The weeding in the olive grove is progressing at a rather slow rate, but almost half is now completed and about 10 hours of weeding is still needed (I can only do 2 hours every 2 days as a matter of preserving my back.)
- The citrus trees need spraying for scale and black mould and this needs to be done soon as the spring blossoms are not far away.
- I have to deal with the weeds around the 34 grape vines.
- The new banksia garden is going to become a rockery. That means trailer loads of rocks have to be picked up around the property and individually placed in this new garden. I sprayed the weeds between the plants about 6 weeks ago, so have a pretty weed free area to work on. I'll take pictures as this develops. I can see this project extending into October.
Then there is "the boys" - with shearing coming up, they need to be brushed......... and the list goes on.......
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